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PEBRCE, t Whvlesale ami lielail OYSTER DEALER, COUDERSPORT, PA. Oysters by the Can, Quart, Gallon, Hundred and Thousand received daily. Families, Parties and Festivals supplied on short notice. The Trade furnished at reasonable rates. Give lue a trial and I can suit you. 24-221 A. H. PEIRCE. John V. Brown, PRoi'KTETOIt OF LINE OF STAGES BKTWFEN Coudersport & Wellsville (Ukt OSWA TO, PA.) i Persons going to OSWATO by stage, and desiring to return same day, will be accommodated at stage rates. Passengers wishing to reaeli any of the neiglittor ing towns will lie conveyed by Livery at reasonable rates. A good Livery rig kept constantly on hand for passengers by the stage. OSWAYO HOUSE, (JOHN V. BROWN, Propr.,) OSWAYO, PA. IW-tf COUDERSPORT, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1873. From the N. Y, Evening Post. Colorado Scenery. "The Garden of the Gods" is gen erally an objective point to the trav eler's ambition from the moment he enters Colorado. The very name fills one's fancy with vague visions, which, on examination, he finds to be composed in nearly equal parts of the "Celestial C'ity" in "Pilgrim's Progress,"the castle picture in Cole's " Voyage of Life," and such dim re membrances as may have survived to him of tin* Mount Olympus of Homel and Virgil. The experience of our own little party may, perhaps, show lietter than any generalization how far the gar den performs the celestial and horti cultural promises of its enchanting name. We started on a true Col orado morning. The natives here call a day which promises to be rainy and disagreeable a "State's day." These pleasure-parties look very pretty as. with the addition of chance equestrians, they wind through the valley or over the hills, under the in tense sunshii.e of an atmosphere of more "utter blueness" than is ever elsewhere, out of Italy. A two-mile drive on the right bank of the rush ing river brings us to the gateway of the garden. IMMENSE TOWERING ROCKS. No description which I have ever seen gives a correct idea of the im pression produced by these tremen dous stones. Rising directly from the plain, of a red color unsurpassed in vividness by the brightest corne lian, stand two bowlders throe hun dred feet high—at once majestic and graceful in outline, and leaving just space enough between them for a fine natural roadway. The idea of a sys tematically planned architectural ef fect is irresistible. "Who put them there? when? how?" we ask in voluntarily; for, in position, shape and color they arc so artistic that our minds revert at once to such ruins as Luxor and Baalbec rather than to any purely natural objects. At the right, just before we pass through the grand portal, is a shin ing mass of gypsunt, as intensely white as the sandstone Ls red, and perhaps half as large as the column nearest to it. Once past the entrance jan overwhelming impression over ! takes us of being in a gigantic tem ple. whose sculptured columns and majestic images are crumbling to : ruin before our eyes. All around, rising abruptly front the light soil, are sandstone oleli>k>, fifty, seventy five. and even a hundred and fifty feet high: so narrow, so tall, and so bafflingly intentional in their shapes and groupings, that one's fancy runs riot in a thousand vagaries. These frowning monsters, surrounded by uncouth forms of animals which seem to fawn at their feet, represent to us the degraded heathen deities who. Milton tells us, never cease to lament over their lost empire; here they stand, petrified by the neglect and contempt of the ages. So we wandered slowly through what seemed to be the remains of a forgotten worship, more picturesque than the Egyptian, more solemn than j the Greek, but partaking of the syra- j bols of each. We crept into a low browed cavern on one side of the gateway, whose huge bosom could contain all the oracles ever uttered from Delphic times to the last meet-; ing of the Spiritualists; but wp were glad to hurry out again, as the possi bility of being punished for our ir reverence by the shutting of its nar- J row jaws overcame even the proverb ial stolidity of a nineteenth-century i American. The wonderful moun tain flora here seems to outdo itself; in honor to the genii of the place. If we stifle our vagrant fancies, still science asks nearly the same • questions as ignorance. How did these separate red and white rocks come up ordowp, within twenty feet of each other, on a soil unlike either stone, and totally unlike the soil of Pike's Peak, of which they might otherwise seem to be debris? If they were the result of the same uplift, why are they not geologically contemporaneous? If of different ages, why do the strata show such similarity of tilt and direction' In vain! The solemn figures keep their secret well,* turn up their noses visi bly at our childish ignorance of facts which they must know as the Yankee knew his father, "Just as easy!" The traveler rides shiulderingly beneath the overhanging masses, which generally appear as iuditfereut to the requirements of gravitation as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and wonders to what storm each will fi nally succumb and what fleeing pleas- J)i r e party will be caught by the fear ful destruction. These sensations cause the exit from the garden to be hailed with feeling of relief, and we drove out upon a smooth road which leads us between rich stones, crown ed by natural-looking old castles. PARADISE IN A WILDERNESS. At a sharp turn in the road our feudal castle became a reality in the more gracious shape of a beautiful modern Italian villa. Here is a rus tic-work gate, flanked by a pictur esque vine-covered porter's lodge, a winding stream bordered by willows, and at the end of a park road, in the very pocket of a romantic glen or bower, handsome and new enough for a show palace on the Hudson River. Our surprise was intense, but a glance at a bona fide eagle's nest perched half-way up on a tre mendous rock near the gate con vinced us that this was the "Glen Eyrie" of which we had heard so much, and the house and grounds those of General Palmer, who has chosen this unusual site for a hand some and hospitable country home. It is a singular position—yet beauti ful ; the park is shut in on every side but one by precipitous rocks, or al most equally precipitous lulls; these remarkable obelisks, like those in the Garden of the Gods, actually overhang the dwelling. They are called the Needles, but to our eyes they much more nearly resemble a gigantic alderman, his tab-shaped wife and their obese daughter, en deavoring to <lo the honors of their first reception—they looked so stilt' and uncomfortable, and were so out rageously fat! In addition to these strange neighbors, the house has one of the wildest canons in Colorado, | stretching out at one side and form ing an extension of the pleasure i grounds. The interior of the villa evinces the same eccentric but noble taste as its environment. The halt has a deep fireplace over which stares the head of a gigantic buffalo, so large that it takes one's breath away, and seems more like some monster of an extinct species than any animal that can have survived to these times. The hearth is formed of a choice selection of all the stones found in this gctn lH'aring region, while across the lace of the carved mantle-piece runs a graceful design in natural leaves, fastened there by some ingenious ) trocess. A butfalo calf, head, feet, skin and all, is fashioned into a luxurious chair, so contrived that an appearance of life is preserved to the clumsy but powerful beast. Faded and tattered Hags won in battle for the Union, hang over superb elk horns. In short, time would fail to tell of all the ways in which love and admiration for this paradise of a country have been shown by the owner of this unique country scat. Of the more easy ap preciated taste shown in a fine library and a well-used grand piano, we for bear to speak, as we forbore to linger in their neighborhood, and tore our selves away, because as strangers we were ashamed to trespass any more, and also because the famous Queen's Canon (named after Mrs. I'almer) was still to be visited. THE QUEEN'S CANON. To this gorge Nature has cunning ly framed an entrance so narrow that no in-pertinent vehicle can ever dis turb her sacred music, and we gladly dispensed with all carriage but ®ur own feet in threading those enchant ing shades. Imagine perpendicular walls of rocks many hundreds of feet high, tull of inviting caves and grot toes hung provokingly out of reach of any bod 3* but bears and cata mounts, and holding close a roaring torrent so full of resonant motion that it seems to lear away one's breath upon its seethiug foam, and so even in its force that the basins which it carves in the solid stone are as circular as watch-crystal. W hat poet, what word-conquerer shall yet arise to fitly describe a Colorado mountain brook! Cold as ice, clear as a diamond, fostering the loveliest ferns, mosses aud creeping plants on its rocky borders; shad owed by solemn white pines whose pictured trunks shoot up one hun dred feet, and then spread into in terlacing branches; and above all, an ocean of deepest, tenderest blue, sprinkled with whitecapped waves of cloud that ebb and flow obedient to the tides of upper air. This is Queen's Canon in Glen Eyrie, and we reverently thanked God that we had seen it. A UNIQUE AND FUNNY SCENE. Monument Park was the next wonder on the programme. I may as well confess at once that the re sult of that visit was to fix certain unromatic alternatives firmly on my mind. The sight of those funeral dra ped sand figures with chocolate-col ored caps awoke neither awe nor enthusiasm. I was convinced either that the wags of the pro-Adamite era once collected all their fashionable neighbors' chimneys together and filled this valley with them for fun, or else that all the queer, long-necked, stiff-skirted old maids of the same period were at some time suddenly turned into stone, and were thus con demned to present this ludicrous but instructive spectacle to future ages. To me this set of formations is not sol em n except at a distance, when they certainly mimic Greenwood or Mount Auburn very creditably, but when you stand in the midst of them they arc simply funny. 1 affirm that if some of the tall, slender females of the days of tiltinglioops had been suddenly petrified by an outraged Providence, they would have looked exactly so, and the large dark top which invariably crowns their little heads is exceedingly like the port en tous sun-bonnet affected bv worth v matrons in some of our rural districts. These caps are said by the guide-books to be madeof"black hematite;" but at a moderate distance they would re present black gingham distended by pasteboard very well. I do not know what black hematite means; I never met anybody who did; but I con clude that it is a kind of fossilized calico, ven - much the worse for wear. The bodies of the supposable Lot's aunts are of sand, apparently stuck together just enough to stand up. all as round as though turned in a lathe, and full of little pebbles which ap pear to have no n< cessavy connection with the parent stem. I regret to say that we spent our time in Monument Park entirely in naming the columns after different acquaintances whom we thought they resembled, which base advan tage taken of the absent may have been the reason why we were caught in a thunder shower and obliged to take refuge in a neighboring ranch. ♦ ■ [From llie Tn<lupenU*tit.] Science. As the approaching transit of Ven us draws near, ti-e notes of prepara tion thicken on every side, and it is evident that it is to be most thorough ly observed. In tlie Northern Hemi sphere the astronomers will be sta tioned along a belt which extends from the mouth of the Nile, across Palestine, Persia and Siberia, to Northern China and Japan. In the Southern Hemisphere New Zealand, Tasmania, and the scattered islands of the South Pacific will be occupied. The Russian Government have pro vided for 25 stations in or near their Siberian dominions. At three or four of their stations the observa tions will be made with heliometers —instruments bv means of whieli the apparent distance of the planet from the centre of the sun's disc can he accurately measured at any moment. At several other stations photography will be employed but at the greater number probably the observations will consist of a simple noting of the moments when the planet first touches and leaves the solar disc. The ar rangements, however, are not finally completed, and the programme may quite possibly be changed in many respects. The German governments combine in providing for three prin cipal sod two subsidiary expeditions. The principal stations will be the port of Chifuh (China), Auckland, and McDonald or Kcrguelen's Island. These parties will lie very completely j equipped with instruments for the observation of contacts, with helio meters, and with photographic ap paratus. The photographs will be made by the means of equatorial tele scopes, of oi incites aperture and about i! feet focus, driven by clock- • work. Of tho subsidiary parties one will be sent to Mauritius. pro\ itled with heliometers, and another to Per sia. for photographic work solely. Frtinee provides for eight or nine stations. In the north she sends to I the lied Sea. to Palestine, to Pekin. i and to Yeddo, in Japan. I n the south to Reunion Island, St. Paul, Camp bell Island, and New Caledonia, with probably a station at the Sandwich | Islands. The precise equipment of' the parties is not settled; but they will rely mainly on photography, and will not use the heliometer to any extent. The English Government j sends out five parties to occupy Oaliu (Sandwich Islands), Kerguclen's j Island, Rodriguez Island, Auckland , (New Zealand), and Alexandria, iu Egypt. There will also be one or two stations in Northern India—one certainly at I'eshawur. Tlie astron - omer royal relies mainly on the ob sorvation of contacts; but photo graphy will also be provided for The equipment of each party will consist essentially of a clock and altazimuth instrument, with an eqna- j tonal of six inches aperture, driven by clockwork, and a so-called phot he liograph. This is a small telescope, driven by clockwork, and provided with an enlarging lens, by which a picture of the sun some four inches in diameter can be obtained. This plan of photographing is regarded with suspicion by most non-English astronomers, on account of the dan ger of distortion in the enl irged im age. Heliometers will not be used. Our own Government i- doing its part nobly. Eight parties will be sent out—four to JV.pin and the neighboring countrie and four to the Southern Pacifie. Probably als<> a ninth, for the mere observation of contacts, will go to the Aleutian Islands. Our parties, besides the usual apparatus for the determina tion of time and geographical posi tion. will he equipped with 5-inch clock-driven equatorial-, and with a most perfect and elaborate photo graphic apparatus, upon which the main reliance will be placed. The image will be made of sufficient size, without any enlargement, by using an object-glass of very long focus, in the manner proposed ami successfully practised by Professor Winlook, of Harvard College. The tube of the j photographic telescope, which is some 30 or 40 feet long, is placed horizontally, and the suit's rays are { reflected through it by a plane mir ror, driven by clockwork. An instru ment of this kind is. of course, less portable and ea y to manage than the photheliogrnph; but it is generally! believed that the results will be enough more accurate to repay well the extra trouble and expense. The ' parties are not yet organised as to 1 their perao/mW; but the instruments are in a good state'of forwart ness, at i the workshop of the Clarks. in Cam- j bridge port. It is expected that the expense of the expeditions will lie between 8150,000 and 8 250,000, of which $50,000 has already been ap propriated by Congress, for instru ments and preliminary arrangements, and placed under the control of a commission, consisting of the supcr ntendent of the Coast Survey (Prof. Pierce), the president of the National Academy of Sciences (Prof. Henry), the superintendent of the Naval Ob servatory (Admiral Sands), and two professors of the same institution (Prof. Neweomb and darkness). The! final selection of stations and assign iueut of observers will come in due season. It is proposed that each party consist of an astronomer in charge, an assistant astronomer, two or three photographic assistants, and a mechanician, with such lal>orers as the nature of the station may de- j mand. Besides these government expedi tions, several private ones will prob ably be organized. The November number of t.he Monthly Notices of the $1.75 A YEAH Royal Astronomical Society contains an account of the preparations now making by Lord Lindsay, the heir to one of the richest and most ancient Scottish duchies, for an expedition to the Island of Mauritius. His party will lie more thoroughly equipped than any other yet ar ranged for —with provision for photo graphic observat ion by both methods, with a large and perfect heliometcr, and with arrangements for the obser vation of contacts spectroscopic;.!!.*, as well as in the ordinary manner It is speaking entirely within bounds to say that all his plans seem to be laid on a scale of truly princely mag nificence; with no regard to display, | indeed, but without regard to expense where expense can secure any real | gain* in accuracy and certainty of ; result. Sixty■-sevou Years Ago. THE LYCOMING MF.MHER OF THIS LEGISLATURE AT THAT TIME.—Mr- Samuel Dale, of Trout Run, has hand, ed us a copy of the Journal of the House of Representatives, Harris burg, for the session which common ced on December 2, 1806. The vol ume shows the ravages of time in its faded pages, but the letter press is clear and distinct, and it is interest ing to look' over the proceedings of the House at that early day. On an examination of the musty volume we find that Isaac Smith was the member from Lycoming county at that time. It appears that his scat was contested, for on the 12th of De cember, 180(5, Mr. Ingham presented a petition from a number of qualified I electors of Lycoming and the piovi : sional county of Tioga, stating that they were fully persuaded that frauds were perpetrated at the last general i election in Tioga which deprived Hugh White of a scat in the House, and praying for a trial. A committee was appointed, of which Joseph Hus ton was chairman, to investigate the matter. After a careful examination, the committee reported'that, although said election may not in all respects have been conducted agreeable to the letter of the different laws on the sub ject,' yet 'they cannot discover that any fraud or frauds were committed, or that a Oilß-ient result would have been the consequent'* from the more •strict adherence to the letter of the law.' and the committee are of 'opin : ion that Isaac Smith had the greatest ! number of legal votes,'ami declare him 'duly electe d.' It appears that thirteen witnesses were subpoenaed, for which the ser geant-at-arms presented a bill for $ 6(5.25. The fees of the witnesses amounted to $4(54.61. the highest sum to any single one being $ J2.0<5. ' After hearing the report the House approved of the same and orders were ! accordingly drawn by the 5 pee km on ' the treasurer of I \ coming county for the sums specified. So ended the contest for the s. at of the member | from this county dxty-?evcn years : a g°- On tlic 4th of February. 1401, Mr. < Smith presented a petition from the inhabitants of the third election dis trict in Lycoming county, 'pray ing jthat the place for holding the elec tions in said district iua\ be removed j from the house of John I'fcuts to the I house of James Shearer, innkeeper, in a village called Jersey Shore." It is curious to look over the pro ceedings of our law-makers two gen erations ago and contrast them with those of to-day. And although a great j deal of corruption at the polls is i charged in these latter days, it would seem that our ancestors were not en tirely free from the charge in 1806, 1 when it was alleged that Mr. Smith obtained hi-. scat through illegal votes, lie that as it may. however. • we do uot believe the people of those j early days were any purer, politically, ; than they are now. Wh< n the Legislature of which we j are speaking was in session, Thomas ; McKean was Governor and Hon. .Si mon Snyder was Speaker of the House of Representatives. McKean was one of the most dis tinguished of Pennsylvania's longlinc of Governors. lie was elected under the Constitution of 1700, December 17, 1709, and served three terms, re tiring December 20. 1808. During his lifetime he was President of Delaware, Governor of Pennsylvania, member of Congress from Delaware a period of over eight years, and Chief Justice of Pennsylvania for twenty-t wo years. Simon Snyder, who was born at Lancaster on the sth of November, 1759, removed to Sclinsgrove in 1784. In 1789 he was elected a ; member of the convention which framed the constitution of 1790. In 1797 he was elected a meinU-r of the House of Representatives.:! nd chosen Speaker in INO2, which position he successively held until 180 S. In 1805 he was beaten for Governor by McKean. He ran again iti 1808 and was elected. He was re-elected in 1811, and again in 1814 by over whelming majorites, serving the full constitutional period of nineyoar*.— Gazette rind Bißrtin.
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